Butter-cutter



(No Model.)

J. PORSGH, Jr,

BUTTER CUTTER.

Patented Jan; 24,1882;

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NTTED STATES JOHN POBSCH, JR., OF ERIE, BENNSYLVAANIA.

ABUTTER-CUTTER.

SPECIFICATION forming part `of Letters Patent No. 252,698, dated January 24,

Application tiled June 14, 1881. (No model.)

To all whom t may conce-ra:

Be it known that I, JOHN PORSCH, Jr., a citizen ofthe United States, residing at Erie, Erie county, Pennsylvania, have invented new and useful Improvements in Butter-Gutters; and I do hereby declare that the following isla full, clear, and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings and the-letters orijgures of reference marked thereon.

My invention relates to devices for cutting out butter or lard from tubs, crooks, or irkinsk and forming the same into rolls or pats of dcsired size, and it consists in certain improvements thereon which will fully appear in the following general description and claim.

My device is shown in the accompanying drawings, as follows:

Figure 1 is a vertical secion of the cut-ter with the handleand plungerin elevation. Fig. 2 is an elevation from the right of Fig. lwith parts broken away. (The position of the undercutting-knife is changed in this figure-to clearly show it.)

The parts are a circular cutter, A, which is in the'form of a cylinder, an undercuttingknife, O, a plunger, B, for pushing the roll or pat out of the cylinder, a graduated plunger stem or handle, B', a gage-screw,F, and other minor parts which will be properly indicated hereinafter.

The cylinder A may be made of wood faced at the cutting edge with metal, or of metal wholly. l

The undercuiting-knife has a vertical stem, C', running up the side ofthe cutter-cylinder in a housing, C, and terminates at the top with a thumb-piece or handle, D. When the cutter is entering the butter the knife C lies diametrically across the mouth of the cylinder, the end opposite the stem O' resting in a notch, a', a spring, d, on the end of the stem serving to keep it place. Y

The plungerstein B is graduated, and marked to indicate the amount of butter that the cylinder will hold below the plunger. This steln passes through a yoke, E, and a binding- ScreW, F, will hold it at any point desired. Therefore the plunger can be adjusted firmly at any desired point, so as to permit the apparatus to cut and take out the desired amount of butter. I

The under-cutter has -four cutting-points, c c

'c c, so that it. will pass easily through the butter in eitherdirection.

The operation is as follows: The under-cutter is adjusted in the notch a', and thus lies diametricallyacrossthemouthofthecutter. The plunger is adjusted to suit the amount ofbutter required from the tub or crock, and is secured there by the binding-screw F. The cutr ter is then pushed down into the mass of butter. (The under-cutter going down of course divides the cut, but this will unite again back ot' the knife.) The device is then revolved halfway around, which causes the under-cutter .to cut horizontally under the butter contained in the cylinder. Thedeviceisthen liltedout and brings with it the butter. By pressing down on the handle D the knife C will disengage from the notch a', and can then be swung around away from the face of the device, and then by looseningthe plunger-stein from the clamping-screw the plunger can be pushed down and expel the roll or pat in fit shape for use. The cutter O having been swung around out of the way, the cake of butter is not cut by it in coming from the cylinder.

What l claim as new is.-

ln a buttercutting apparatus, the combination of the cylinder A with yoke E, plunger B with stem B', working through said yoke, and the set-screw F within said yoke, for clamping said stem,substantiallyas and forthepurposes set forth.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing I have hereunto set my hand this 14th day of Feb ruary, 1881.

JOHN PORSOH, JR..

Vitnesess:

SAM. Woons, JNO. K. HALLOCK. 

